My name is Andrea Kennicutt. I am likely older than many of you all in
class. I am 43 years old. I have 4 kids of my own, a step-daughter, and 5
grand-kids. Two of my grand-kids live with me and one come to visit
every other weekend. My kids are boys ages 9 and 16 (17 on the 21st of
this month), and twin girls age 10. My grand-kids are girls age 16, 13,
3, and 1 ½ and one boy age 8. The boy lives with his father in Alaska.
The 3 year old was given up for adoption and last I heard lives in
California. The 16 year old and the 1 ½ year old currently live with me
and the 13 year old lives with her father, but she visits us. My
stepdaughter has a drug problem, which is why none of her kids live with
her. I have been married for 18 years and we live in Del City.
This is my first semester at OU. I finished my Associates in Science at
Rose State in December. I am majoring in Meteorology. I have always been
fascinated by the weather. I absolutely love thunderstorms. Love
listening to the thunder roar and I love to watch the lightning light up
the sky. If any of you have ever watched the movie Thor, there is this
scene where it’s about to rain and Thor hears the thunder and gets this
big grin on his face. That’s exactly how I feel when I hear thunder. It
makes me smile every time. To me, it is peaceful. I don’t know what I
plan to do with my degree at this point, but hopefully I will figure it
out sometime before I graduate. If all goes as planned, I will have my
Bachelor’s degree in Meteorology in May 2018.
Beautiful Lightning
I have 6 pets. I have a Beagle named Eddie. He is fat and lazy. I also
have 5 cats. Three of them came from the animal shelter (as did the
dog). We have Bones; he is named for my favorite Star Trek character. He
is a tan tabby and is very fluffy. Not at all what you would think a
cat names Bones would look like. Ninja is my husband’s cat. He is a
black and white tuxedo. He likes to lie on my son’s black blankets, like
he can’t be seen there. But his white gives him away. Bats came to us
as part of a duo, Bats and Robin; sadly Robin got hit by a car. Bats is
all grey and kind of shy. Natasha, aka Black Widow, practically forced
her way into our home. She just showed up at our door one day and we let
her in. She was pregnant and we kept one of her kittens we named
Coulson. Natasha is all black. She hates all the other cats, including
her own son now that he’s older, but loves the dog. Coulson is all black
as well, but he has longer fur. He is very active, but then he’s only 9
months old.
Ninja and Bones doing what they do best. Photo taken by me.
Natasha. Photo taken by me.
Bats. Photo taken by me.
Coulson. My kids put a pedometer on his collar. Photo taken by me.
Eddie and Loki. I no longer have Loki. He disappeared a couple years ago.
I miss him terribly. He was my baby. Photo taken by me.I have fairly recently picked up my old childhood pastime of reading comics. I read them occasionally as a kid and I loved watching Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk back when they were on tv. Yes, I’m that old. Ha ha ha. I have been buying random $1 comics trying to find a series I really like. I like a lot of them. The series I am focusing on the most right now is Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme. I love all the comic book movies that have been released in recent years. I have been watching many of the recent comic book tv shows as well. The Flash is a family favorite of ours. Everyone in the family will actually sit together to watch it. As far as the movies go, my current favorite is Captain America: Winter Soldier. I say current favorite because my favorites change often. I am looking forward to watching Batman vs Superman when it comes out late this year, mainly because Wonder Woman is going to be in it. She was my favorite as a child, and I look forward to seeing her on the big screen.
Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in Batman vs Superman
As you might have guessed, I’m a bit of a nerd/geek. I love comics, especially Marvel and DC, and both Star Wars and Star Trek. I have never understood why some people think you have to pick one over the other. When I was younger I was embarrassed that none of my friends liked the nerdy/geeky things I liked, and so I hid that part of myself for a long time. Now that I’m older, I don’t care as much what others think. It’s a plus that now it is not considered such a bad thing like it was when I was younger. Don’t be embarrassed to express what you love, whatever that may be.
